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By Thu Thu Aung (Reuters) - Nearly a year after his son was last seen being hauled away by Myanmar junta troops, 66-year-old Win Hlaing says he just w...

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners estimates more than 8,000 people are detained in prisons and interrogation centers, including Aung San Suu Kyi, while about 1,500 have been killed

Nearly a year after his son was last seen being hauled away by Myanmar junta troops, 66-year-old Win Hlaing says he just wants to know whether he is alive. One night last April, a neighbor phoned to tell him his son, Wai Soe Hlaing, a young father who ran a phone shop in Yangon, had been detained in connection with protests against the Feb. 1 military coup. They traced the

Activists and families say many have disappeared since Myanmar was plunged into turmoil after the military overthrew the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi.

A year after Myanmar's coup, families of detainees search for answers

By Thu Thu Aung

EFEBangkok 4 May 2021 Demonstrators flash the three-finger salute during an anti-military coup rally in Mandalay, Myanmar, 03 May 2021. EFE-EPA/STRINGER Demonstrators march during an anti-military coup rally in Mandalay, Myanmar, 03 May 2021. EFE-EPA/STRINGER People display placards as they march during a protest against Myanmar military coup in Taipei, Taiwan, 02 May 2021. EFE-EPA/RITCHIE B. TONGO Five people, including an ousted lawmaker and three police defectors, were ki...

Package bomb kills 5 people in Myanmar, including ousted lawmaker 1 minute read Bangkok, May 4 (EFE).- Five people, including an ousted lawmaker and three police defectors, were killed in a blast from a parcel bomb while hiding in a house in the city of Bago, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Yangon, according to local media reports on Tuesday. Thet Win Hlaing, a regional lawmaker from the National League for Democracy (NLD), the party overthrown in the Feb. 1 military coup and whose leader, Aung...